Hello Bangkok poets, fictioneers, hip-hop kids, and graphic novelettists!
The theme for the next Bangkok Poetry at Opposite on Thursday, October 18 is "Dream Pop."
Our scheduled performers include:
Iris Abras and Kenneth Nielsen
Wesley Hsu
Rupert James
Kathy MacLeod
Mickey Mouse
Ekta Sharma
Danny Wood
James Yu
Boaz Zippor
We'll have two true, proper "open-mic" spots available on the night of. If you're interested in performing, get there early and track down the host and we'll get you on the list.
About the theme
What's dream pop?
Are your teenage romances not soundtracked by Cocteau Twins? Not a Lowlife fan? A Dif Juz aficionado? Maybe you're more of a shoegaze cat, hauling your Catherine Wheel and My Bloody Valentine records with you from Portlandia to Krung Thep?
Beach House? Lykke Li? Amusement Parks on Fire?
For this theme, performers may take a stab at entering some a poem, a fiction, a film, or a graphic novelette into this Morpheus-inhabited corner of rock n' roll, or take the image or phrase in some other direction entirely ("what's a dream pop?"). Or, as always, they are permitted to creatively ignore the theme, and read to us from The Great Thai Novel they've been penning these last twelve years...
Spread the word! Especially to that friend you know who does a mean cover of "Sunday Morning."
